Siemens and Microsoft Announce Worldwide Alliance to Bring Real-Time Communication and Collaboration Solutions to Market: "Siemens and Microsoft Announce Worldwide Alliance to Bring Real-Time Communication and Collaboration Solutions to Market
MUNICH, Germany, and REDMOND, Wash. -- January 11, 2005 -- The Siemens Communications Group and Microsoft Corp. today announced a new global sales and marketing alliance, a multi-year agreement that will deliver a comprehensive family of enterprise-grade, presence-enhanced calling, video and Web conferencing, and collaboration solutions to customers throughout the world.
The alliance leverages a successful strategic product relationship the companies have built over the last two years. Siemens and Microsoft share a common vision of presence-enabled communication that integrates voice, video, instant messaging and Web conferencing into a comprehensive tool suite to improve worker productivity and team collaboration."

1/12/2005

Quilogy - The art and science of business.: "12/08/04 - The Quilogy Learning Platform is the only learning management system available for SharePoint portal Quilogy�s CRM and ERP Business Applications solutions successfully resolve top operational and financial pains for not-for-profit organizations. Then, the Quilogy Learning Platform is the only learning management system available for SharePoint portal technologies that provides an easily managed, e-learning environment with interactive course content, content management tools and learning assessment system. More
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As with all of our products, Sybari Enterprise Manager was designed from the ground up to protect and support the needs of Microsoft technology users. As expert users of Microsoft technology, we invite you to leverage and provide critical feedback for this beta program. "

SmartLibrary enables people and teams to collaborate and tightly control document quality through a customizable workflow process. SmartLibrary further enhances SharePoint document libraries with features such as change auditing, statistic reporting, document undelete and the ability to publish approved documents to other systems.

SmartLibrary integrates seamlessly with SharePoint sites and no additional software is required on client machines. In less than 30 minutes, SmartLibrary dramatically increases the value of your SharePoint investment. "

1/11/2005

Microsoft Office (General): "After a decade of 32-bit development, you might think that Microsoft Office was finished. Despite that, Microsoft is still finding new things to put in to the Office box. In Office 2003, there's a renewed emphasis on collaborative features, centering around the newly renamed Windows SharePoint Services. In this article, Mike Gunderloy shows you how Access 2003 can work with data stored in SharePoint."

Welcome to Vyapin Software Systems (P) Ltd.: "Vyapin builds intelligent, cost-effective IT solutions that bridge the gaps in Data, Information and Knowledge that exist across the enterprise - its processes, people and technologies. Our core competence is the product of a continuous learning process driven by our technology expertise, customer satisfaction and evolving market needs. We dimension, design, develop and deploy solutions that:
address the real needs of customers
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Vyapin is a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in developing applications for Windows BackOffice range of products, Client-Server Applications and System Administration tools & components for the Microsoft Enterprise Network. "

1/05/2005

FrontPointI have a Data View Web Part that displays the status of several different servers I maintain. Basically, I am using a SharePoint list. The List has a Title field which contains the name of each server and a multiple choice field that lets me set the status to "UP," "DOWN," or "CAUTION."

For each of these three statuses, I have a little gif image of a green arrow, red arrow and yellow circle respectively. What I want to do is create a data view that has the name of the server and displays the arrow based on the what the status is.

Here's how to do that.

Open the wss site in FrontPage 2003
Click Data..Insert Data View
Right click the SharePoint list that contains my data
Click "Show Data"
Select the Title field
Click "Insert Data View"
Since I only selected one field, I get a bulleted list. So I change this: by clicking on Data..Style > General tab and changing to Tabular view..OK
Place the Cursor next to one of the server names and add a new column to my view: Table > Insert > Rows and Columns
Place the Cursor inside a cell in this new column and insert my image
Insert > Picture from file
I type in the URL to the green.gif
Next to this image, I insert the red.gif and yellow.gif as well so each row of data now shows all three images
Select the green.gif image
Click on Data..Conditional Formatting
Click Create
Click Show Content...
I create a filter that says "Status == UP"..OK (now the green arrow only shows in rows where status is UP)
Repeat steps 13 through 17 for the other two gifs, setting the filter appropriately
Save the page
Using Conditional Formatting opens up a huge world of possibilities. You can modify views by passing parameters via web part connections, you can format items conditionally, you can show data or hide data based on complex XPATH by clicking on the Advanced button in the filter dialog, and on and on.

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